A couple of weeks ago I had a crazy idea. Why not take my Long Trail Journal and turn it into an eBook and put it up on Amazon so that lots of people might have a chance to read it? Originally I had planned to offer it for free, but Amazon insisted on making me charge the minimum price of $2.99, and so I decided to donate the proceeds any sales to the Green Mountain Club of Vermont, because without them the trail would not exist and my trip would not have been possible. Crazy idea, huh! So I dusted off my Adobe inDesign program and during the past few weeks I put together an eBook of my journal and illustrated it with lots of photos from the trip.
I finished formatting the eBook over the weekend and uploaded it Sunday night. Then this morning just for the heck of it I decided to take a peek at my account and to my amazement I had already sold a copy! Yahoo- champagne and dog-biscuits for everyone!
Here’s the link if you are a hiker and fan of eBooks or just want to check it out: Gifts of the Trail: A Long Trail Journal by Shirley Harman
